That is why the form itself becomes a preoccupation, because it exists as a problem separate from the material it accommodates.

The specific analogy to the dilemma of love is the problem of the `` breakthrough '' in the realm of art.

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

But the problem is one which gives us the measure of a man, rather than a group of men, whether a group of doctors, a group of party members assembled at a dinner to give their opinion, or the masses of the voters.

In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.

The problem is to remove the accretions and thereby uncover the order that was always there.

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

The maturity in this point of view lies in its recognition that no basic problem is ever solved without being clearly understood.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

Ptolemy's problem is to forecast where, against the inverted bowl of night, some particular light will be found at future times.

The distances of these points of light is a problem he cannot master, beyond crude conjectures as to the orderings of the planetary orbits viewed outward from earth.

This is a problem to be solved not by America alone, but also by every nation cherishing the same ideals and in position to provide help.

The problem, in other words, is strictly a chronological one.

The problem of NATO is not one of machinery, of which there is an abundance, but of the will to use it.

Our problem, therefore, is to devise processes more modest in their aspirations, adjusted to the real world of sovereign nation states and diverse and hostile communities.

The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

The only real problem is to devise a plan whereby the owners of the above-water land can develop their property without the public losing its underwater land and the right to its development for public use and enjoyment.

Biggest organizational problem, he adds, is setting up CDC units in rock-ribbed Democratic territory.

If they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??

The new column by Maurice Stans regarding business scandals, is fair and accurate in most respects and his solution to the problem has some merit.

The whole problem of `` peaceful coexistence and peaceful competition '' with the capitalist world is in the very center of this Congress.

But this is not the real problem ; ;

`` That is, if we can be sure this is Colcord's money '' --

For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.

It is well then that in this hour both of `` national peril '' and of `` national opportunity '' we can take counsel with the men who made the nation.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.

Since the difficulty of drawing the net is great, we will merely discuss it.

So we see that a specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less as he develops, as contrasted to the generalist, who knows less and less about more and more.

What I am here to do is to report on the gyrations of the struggle -- a struggle that amounts to self-redefinition -- to see if we can predict its future course.

One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.

One way to determine whether we have so dangerous a technology would be to check the strength of our society's organs to see if their functioning is as healthy as before.

In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.

We have proved so able to solve technological problems that to contend we cannot realize a universal goal in the immediate future is to be extremely shortsighted, if nothing else.

But is the result new barnsful of tested knowledge on the basis of which we can with confidence solve our domestic and international problems??

Man, we are told, is endowed with reason and is capable of distinguishing good from bad.

`` The Moral Creed '' and `` The Will To Risk '' live happily together, if we do not examine where the line is to be drawn.

So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.

As a means of silencing a discussion which ought to have taken place, the statement is an effective one: we sympathize with the universal confusion which gives rise to such convictions.

But because it is the function of the mind to turn the one into the other by means of the capacities with which words endow it, we do not unwisely examine the type of distinction, in the sphere of politics, on which decisions hang.

The liberal-conservative division, we might observe in passing, is not of itself directly involved in a private interest conflict nor even in struggle between ruling groups.

At that point we reach the `` closed '' historical situation: the situation in which man is no longer free to return to a status quo ante.